Go to a store with a copy machine they have the option to shrink down photos and images and you can make it small enough to fit into the tin with the rattle. You can laminate it as well and cut it out so it will be more durable.

Just for the record, the question itself -- how to avoid folding the seal for use in a hand -- is a bit of a non-starter because many people write on the seal and use it as a petition paper and then fold it, just the way you fold a petition paper. I have seen (and purchased) many dozens of bags with seals in them since the 1960s, and they all were folded.

For use in a flat, circular tin, however, i would hand-copy or photocopy it small enough to press-fit inside the tin.

I printed up the 1st Pentacle of the Sun and I placed it in the middle of three candles, one orange, yellow and green each one dressed with a different oil blend ranging from attraction, cos, ksw, money draw, solomon seal root, jtc, van van, african ju ju, and special oil #20. Each candle only had 3-4 oils per blend and all were dusted with $$ draw, attraction, cos, & prosperity powders - along with parsley and cinnamon.

After the candles have burnt down, I"ll dress the seal with solomon seal root one more time and dress it also with the same powders. Then it'll go into my rattler tin

Thank you as well Miss Aida. I just finished my project. It didn't go as planned but actually turned out better than I could've hoped for.

The candles burned great - strong flame but steady and not too fast. Then when the orange and green were about 95% done (it just looked like sooty residue was left), the flames grew pretty strong and stood like that for about another half-hour. The yellow burned steady all the way down, not like the other two.

I placed the seal under a very small saucer to prevent wax going onto the seal, but, just like water, the melted wax went and easily filled any crevices between the saucer and the seal thereby coating the seal with melted wax, which I thought would damage the seal. All the wax really ended up doing was act as a coating for the seal (a wax sealed seal!). I did a five spot of Solomon Seal Oil on it, dressed it with the same sachet blend, and fit it into the tin.

This was a wonderful project that gave me opportunities of advice and practicality and experience. The next project I'll do is make another wish paper for my JackBall bag. It'll have a seal next time. I love learning about how to use something like this and then opening up as many opportunities as possible to put it to use, in this case, the use of Seals

I want to express my appreciation and gratitude to you all again for your advice and insight. I've seen Seals before, but like everything else, I really didn't know what to do with them, use them, or anything. This forum, and the people here have so much to offer, and offer it selflessly. I am learning so much, so fast, and I owe it all to Miss Cat, MIss Aida, and everyone here. Thank You All.

Hi everyone,
Forgive me if this is covered elsewhere, I didn't see any related topic. I was listening to one of the older podcasts of the LM show and Cat mentioned using seals of Solomon in protection work. I can certainly see how that would work as both the Lesser and Greater Keys are grimoires I've used in the past. Now, just recently I came across a discussion about the book Conjure Codex and the article in the book about working with goetic spirits in a conjure\hoodoo sort of style. I was wondering, how much of a role do goetic spirits play in hoodoo, or is it entirely up to the individual person? Sorry for the silly question, I'm only beginning my exploration of hoodoo.

Thanks for the quick reply Hearing the discussion about working with those spirits was certainly interesting to me as I've worked with the goetic spirits for a long time. I want to learn "traditional hoodoo" (for a lack of a better term) but knowing me, I would likely add goetic spirits later on down the line.

I was wondering what seal should be used to keep the law away and which Should be used to ensure I can finish building my house this year? Side question how did Solomon seals come into hoodoo practices? Just wanted to know

Thankyou miss cat also do you offer any books in PDF format I'd gladly pay the price for a paperback but living in Mexico I have to wait a long time for shipping, I'd love to pay and download them if that format is available?

Papa Newt is correct, stillsosola. In keeping with our old-fashioned shop and our mission to be a vintage theme store, we only print books on paper. This is an important part of the look and feel of Lucky Mojo, as are our old-school labels, and hand-made ethos. I am sorry if it does not please everyone -- but just as there are collectors of vinyl records and even shellac records and wax cylinders, there are also collectors of paper books. It is our pleasure to take you back in time ... if you will enjoy the ride. We do ship to Mexico. You can also order all of our Lucky Mojo Publishing books from Amazon and they too ship to Mexico.

I currently have the seal of love in a charm but I got the parchment slips as well. Eventually I got three sets of each, three of the seal of magic, three of the seal of mephistopheles, and three for the seal of love. The love seal will be used for either my chuparrosa, ven a mi, or pink candles but the otherror two, magic and mephistopheles, what candles are great for. Somone told me the mephistopheles seal is good for the blockbuster candle, but I need straight answers so I can work on jt.

Question is... what candles I can use for the mephistopheles seal and for the seal of magic?

Ah, i see your problem. You are confusing Judaism with Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (which you identify as "strictly observing shabbat ritually").

I am a Jew myself, from a family that has been part of the Reform denomination of Judaism since the 1840s in Germany, about 175 years. The Reform denomination started in 1810; when my grandparents, aunt, and mother came to America from Germany during the Hitler era, they found Reform Synagogues here as well. (In fact, according to Wikipedia, "by 1880, more than 90 percent of American synagogues were Reform.") We Reform Jews do not concern ourselves with such things as fire-kindling rules and other forms of ascetic literalism, because we -- like liberal Christians -- have chosen to consciously express our faith through the social and spiritual aspects of our belief and not by pleasing God through minutiae of obedience. That is our way.

However, i do have Orthodox friends (and my own family was previously Orthodox) and they (and we) normally use(d )some sort of previously lit flame for the Sabbath, or banked coals, or some such work-around. We even kept, as a remembrance, our family's circa 1820 heater box for keeping food warm. Since your question was only about FIRE, i replied with that in mind.

However, now you proceed onward to the COMPUTER. At this point you are speaking again of minutiae, and of the carrying over of the idea of a spark of fire to a spark of electrical energy. In my family we would have said, "Just leave the computer on overnight" -- no SPARK would then be "kindled" to start it up. This is identical to the concept of the Sabbath elevator in some Jewish-owned hotels -- it is pre-set to stop at every floor and runs automatically when started up the previous day. This is such a common work-around for the Orthodox that i am surprised it did not occur to you.

Also, why would you -- or anyone -- need a COMPUTER or a PRINTER to draw seals? A pen and paper is sufficient!

To be very precise here: To consecrate a seal with the four elements -- earth, air, fire, and water -- does NOT require a computer. The fire, if you choose to use it, need not have been kindled on the Sabbath, and all Orthodox Jews know how to kindle a fire and bank it the night before or to set a 7-Day vigil candle and let it burn continually.

For more on these concepts, please obtain and read a copy of "The Shabbat Elevator and Other Sabbath Subterfuges: An Unorthodox Essay on Circumventing Custom and Jewish Character" by Alan Dundes. We do not carry it in our shop, as it is rather specialized, but you will certainly find it for sale online. The author was both Jewish and a professor of folklore at the University of California. It is a very entertaining read.

Interesting perspective of reform and orthodox Judaism, i normally hear reform jews say that orthodoxy are just 'the SHUT UP and DO AS YOUR TOLD' type of jews as if they have no occult clue or brainwashed jews if they do, and truly speaking many people dont know why orthodox jews write G-d and Hashem in this way yet those who know occult do know its because when moses asked what G-d's name was so when he returned he can tell the people israel and the Egyptians the only response he got was 'i am what i am' and only iam known for my deeds, in other words his names mean nothing with out his sustenance and the same goes for everything else sitting around he created, to add to this making anything holy including the people israel requires both sides to participate in judaism which in return is sustaining the world we live in itself., im only speaking from what Rabbis shared with me and i can share links to torah.

i dont smoke and its funny i forgot something a rabbi reminded me of in the last few days which is that on Yom Kippur people light cigs from a already lit candles, alike the work around you described on Shabbat, but more observant jews (especially ones involved in situations like Cohens who need to be pure) consider any use of fire as forbidden, in other words kindling means using it and not just turning it on., and because they are responsible for rituals like sacrifices its a no-no, i imagine anyone here also concerned with doing heavy occult work fallow strict principles like this too., and they may not realize it but they could be as well replicating cohenim rituals in their own cult circle, take the judaic slash christian movement, you see solomoni ceremonial rituals all the type, masons also use replicas of the temple with medieval rituals.

iam very glad someone like you is sharing info, ppl need to understand why rabbis question converts to see if they are attracted to judaism to get initiated for their own occult self interests instead of also respecting traditional jewish life., i personally like mansosrti or modern judaism more myself which is between reform and orthodox, its about the way of traditional jewish life, its very hard to keep up with two kosher kitchens., either way its great to see jews here

I just purchased the Key of Solomon to use in a skull candle for influence/reconciliation/return to me work. I saw a Southern practioner use 2 seals of solomon in the skull candle and she burned them halfway down so they fit. I particularly wanted to use them for petition papers as I believe it would make them more effective. Which keys should I use? I was unaware a certain key should be used for different work

Thank you SisterJean. I did what you said and I didnt see anything. Thats why I asked. I did decide to look at the pentacles of Venus assuming that would be for love. I saw them and noticed the third pentacle of venus is Angel Monachiel and it should be "invoked" at the day and hour of venus. For a pentacle be "invoked" does that mean to be used however intended?

Hello all,
I was wondering if the're are any Solomon's seals that are good to use in a banishing spell on a potential love rival? Looking through them there don't seem to be any specifically for this purpose but I thought maybe the 4th pentacle of Mars as it says it's for victory in an argument or battle. Or the 1st pentacle of Saturn which makes the possessor's wishes easier to manifest? Then there is the 6th pentacle of Saturn which gives protection from enemies, but I don't really need protection as such, I just want this person to stay away from my love interest. I've had some results from using the pentacle of Venus in love spells , but just wondered if other seals can be used in more negative kind of work?. I don't want to hurt this person, just keep her away as much as is possible from my love interest, although kind of difficult as they share an office. Anyway, I'd be grateful for any advice. Thanks.

Thanks very much Miss Aida! I was thinking to burn a black candle with banishing oil on the seal placed over her photo, but I'm not sure whether to write my petition for her to stay away from my love interest on the seal or on her photo crossed by my name. I had additional questions about how to word the petition but I guess I should post them in a thread on banishing spells rather than here? Thanks again!

Thanks Miss Aida!
Sorry, just to clarify - I'd write just 'get away' on the seal? I wasn't sure if I should mention my love interest's name in It, as in get away from 'john doe'? I know you're not supposed to in freezer spells, but wasn't sure about this. And should I carve anything on the candle? Thanks!

I don't think there is a "procedure" to getting these tattoos, but what you want to do as far as working on the planetary day and at the planetary hour sounds very good. Just talk to the artist about it.

Good luck.

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Look up which one you have, then it will tell you how it is used. It can be worn on you, placed in a mojo, placed under candles, used on the later where you do your work, dressed with oils.
A link that will be helpful: http://www.luckymojo.com/kingsolomonwisdom.html

The Seals of Solomon and the Seals of Moses (with samples you can copy for use) are the central feature of a great article in "The Red Folder: Private Lessons on the Practice of Hoodoo," a compilation of workshop and lecture notes on folk magic as presented at the annual Hoodoo Heritage Festivals from 2014 - 2019. Look for "Spell Star and Sigil Magic" article by Angela Marie Horner. The centerfold of the book contains two colour plates relating to her work, with the Seals of Moses (reprinted from our 2016 book, "Legends of Incense, Herb, and Oil Magic" in the traditional red colouring) and the Spell Star base for collage work in full colour.

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